ROBERT-LOUIS ABRAHAMSON is Emeritus Professor in the European Division of the University of Maryland. He was raised in Philadelphia and attended Amherst College, the University of Edinburgh and Rutgers University before settling in England in 1980. He has lectured and given talks on Dante over several decades, including 102 podcasts on The Divine Comedy and many episodes of his radio show Evening under Lamplight (Cambridge Radio) discussing the Inferno.

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For the reader who is neither a medievalist, nor a theologian, Going through Hell offers an engaging companion to reading Dante's great poem. In his book, Robert Louis Abrahamson draws on a lifetime of study to show how Dante's often strange medieval world and no less strange theological assumptions can still reveal astonishing insights into our own postmodern world and confront us with uncomfortable but compelling truths about what it is to be human and what we should most value in our lives.